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Becoming a Garamut Player in Baluan, Papua New Guinea - Musical Analysis as a Pathway to Learning (Paperback)
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Becoming a Garamut Player in Baluan, Papua New Guinea - Musical Analysis as a Pathway to Learning (Paperback)
Series: SOAS Studies in Music
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The garamut is a log idiophone that is found in many of the coastal
and island areas of Papua New Guinea. The instrument's primary use
is as a speech surrogate and in some regions the garamut is also
used in large ensembles to play complex music for dancing. In
Baluan Island, within the Manus Province, this style of garamut
playing is comparatively highly developed. This book follows the
author's processes and methods in learning to play the music of the
garamut, to the level at which he became accepted as a garamut
player by the people of Baluan. Lewis argues that analysis is
essential in learning to play the rapid tempi and complex rhythms
of Baluan garamut music, in a cultural context where there is no
formal teaching process for the music. The transcription and
analysis of the Baluan garamut repertoire is the centrepiece of
this study, reflecting the cognitive structures of the learning
process, and revealing the inner workings of the music's complexity
as well as a striking beauty of form and structure. The book
concludes with reflections on the process of a 'cultural outsider'
becoming a garamut player in Baluan and on the role of musical
analysis in that process, on the ethnomusicologist's role in
transmission of the music, and on the nature of continuity and
change in a musical society such as Baluan.
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